Bernie Ecclestone offloads the Grand Prix and F1 car collection
Few people are as closely related to Formula 1 as Bernie Ecclestone, so it's not surprising that he has an impressive collection of race cars from the sport.
Ecclestone, 94, is currently breaking up with many of them — a total of 69 cars — to be sold via UK exotic car expert Tom Hartley Jr.Many of them have been locked away for decades, if at all as Ecclestone rarely shows them to the public.
Ecclestone has been involved in F1 since the 1950s, buying and running in the 1970s, first with the Connaught team and later with Brabham. However, he is most widely recognized for founding the F1 Group in 1987.F1 is a group of companies that promote f1 worldwide and manage its commercial rights. Ecclestone eventually transferred control of the group to its current owner, Liberty Media, in 2017.
Ecclestone has been collecting his collection for over 50 years. At least according to public records, when Ayrton Senna paidド1993 million for a piloted McLaren MP4/8A F1 race car, he recently added to it in 2018.
That car is not one of the 69 cars sold, but there are many other highlights.1 . These include old successful Ferrari race cars such as the Ferrari F2002, which Michael Schumacher won from the F1 season in 2002, 312B3, 246 and 375, and Alberto Ascari won the Italian Grand Prix in 1951.
Outside of Ferrari, the Vanwall VW10, which won multiple victories by Stirling Moss in 1958, and the only BT46B "Funker" designed by Gordon Murray and piloted by Niki Lauda, were among the first to be banned in Sweden in 1978, before several Brabums were banned. He won at Lampri.
In a statement, Ecclestone said he also wanted to break up with them while he was still alive, because his passion was always about racing, and that always collecting grand prix cars, especially F1 cars, than road cars, because his passion was always about racing.
"The Grand Prix, especially the Formula 1 car, is the pinnacle of the sport and is much more important than any road car or any other form of race car because every car I have bought over the years has a great racing history and is an unusual work of art," he said. It was a great experience.
